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I think the right not to be interfered with is important too. This includes property rights, but I wouldn't necessarily put it at the very top of the list moral
by netcan 11y ago
I think the right not to be interfered with is important too. This includes property rights, but I wouldn't necessarily put it at the very top of the list morally. They're pretty important economically.
In any case, I think it's interesting you said "freedom to smoke pot in one's home." Many aspects of liberalism/libertarianism are fairly incompatible with fundamentalism, though people try. Once you accept that a little taxation is necessary to fund police or something, you give up on a fundamentalist purity. Once you put in a caveat that you're freedoms end where they diminish another's you end up with grey areas.
The grey area here is that what you do with your property affects your neighbours. If you have a rock garden or an unkempt mess (or a wrong coloured door if you're in the Netherlands) the neighbourhood is different. Everything we do affects other people and we need some lines. AirBnB built an entire society in the grey area. The whiter sections are renting a couch to travellers. A darker shad might be a setup that rents out 4 apartments in a 10 unit building with appeal to a noisier or more disruptive market segment.